CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 [Old Version]
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Carefully designed to make work more enjoyable, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 delivers powerful software for graphic design, page layout, photo editing and vector animation. Includes: CorelDRAW 11, Corewl PHOTO-PAINT 11, and Corel R.A.V.E 2.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Warning-- you'll be on your own if you need any help!
Comment: Corel Corp. is very unreachable, unfriendly. You'd better already know how to use the graphics program because the tutorial is a dry 'help' button. I've had problems with the program interfacing with Windows XP and crashes have been frequent. The website is difficult to navigate, find answers, and Corel is definately hard to reach. Emails go unanswered ("due to the volume of emails we receive we cannot guarantee a response.") A $25 fee is expected per question. Web pages come up blank, update downloads won't go thru, and when I registered and was given a password that was supposed to give better access, the password would not work. After being assigned another password, the access is the same. The program does list minimum system requirements, but did not include video card specs. 32? 128? 256mg? When asked, Corel said they could not 'recommend.' Then who can? I am a graphic artist but not literate in CorelDraw specifically. I'm trying to teach myself this program by following a book and a CD. However, many actions are not available as instructed. It is not user friendly and appears I'll have to learn a thousand steps when I need to know how to do two. I'm a longtime fan of their wordprocessing program, WordPerfect, but I'm so unhappy with Corel that I wouldn't recommend it either.
When you spend $400 for a computer program, I feel help and tutorials should be more available. BJ Lewis Eagle Point OR
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Summary: Graphic Supervisor
Comment: We have used Corel Draw now since version 9 and find that Corel 11 is by and far away easier, more productive than Illustrator or Freehand. We have 9 designers all of which were Illustrator users until we started with Corel 9 and now the fabulous Corel 11. There simply is no better illustration program and I can assure you that I speak for our whole staff. I only wish I held Corel stock..............
Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely Disappointed
Comment: As a die-hard user of CorelDraw and Photo-Paint since way back to Version 6, I recently (and excitedly) made the jump to Version 11. Corel graphics apps have always been easy to use, comprehensive, and stable. But not anymore...
Since installing Corel 11, it's become painfully obvious that the jump was a major mistake. On a machine that includes the Macromedia MX Suite, Photoshop 7, and AutoCAD LT 2004, the Corel Graphics Suite 11 has been an unstable, bug-ridden, resource hogging pain in the proverbial behind. I built my computer, and it's a finely tweaked, blazing fast, graphics demon. And of course, all of my other graphics programs work just fine on it. But not Corel 11. Until Corel actually addresses the endless number of serious flaws and bugs in this latest suite, I cannot recommend it to anyone.
The only reason I didn't give Version 11 just (1) star is because of the simple fact that Photo-Paint is easily the most underrated photo-editing/bitmap creation software on the planet.
(When it's actually working right!) There's not anything that I can do in Photoshop that I can't do in Photo-Paint; and I do it all at a fraction of Adobe's ridiculously high price. (I only own Photoshop because certain clients expect it.)
Unfortunately, the new Corel 11 has me using Photoshop a lot more these days, and using Photo-Paint 8 on a W98 machine.
In summation, one reviewer said it best... this one's definitely "dead out of the box".
Customer Rating:
Summary: BETTER THAN ADOBE
Comment: the lesser THIS IS THE CASE being better ADOBE unfair buisiness practices MAY NEVER BACKFIRE ON EM, CAUSE THYVE BEEN an apple CLONE, like their customers,theyve been using the same software update after update till THEIR BRAINS HAVE TURNED TO mush, COREL IS BETTER THE BOX IS BETTER, they have a few MORE ARTISTIC MINDED PROGRAMERS AND ITS EASIER TO use,
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Summary: Once again, Corel fails to provide a competent OS X product
Comment: I've been a CorelDraw/PhotoPaint user since Version 8. I used it on a PC, on a dual 200 MHz Pentium system, and found it to be a very useful and stable product.
Now I am working on a Mac and this has all changed. I bought v11 hoping that they had eliminated at least some of the problems in v10. Nope. The constant crashes are still there. It crashes if you Undo a Fill, it crashes if you import an EPS file...on and on. It is MORE crash prone than v10. I am working on an iBook, and all my other apps are rock solid. Except CorelDraw. Furthermore, the software is god-awful slow on an iBook. Maybe a dual G5 would give you some performance, but my dual p200 was faster that this.
Also, the PhotoPaint scripting that allowed you to make movies and do other useful things is gone. Completely gone, and I understand it was removed from the PC version as well, for GOD KNOWS what reason. Why, o why, does Corel think it is progress to REDUCE the functionality of your software?
If you liked the old versions, you are not missing anything. Stick with v9. If you are working on a Mac, do yourself a favor and find a different tool. Corel is not making any advances here, they are not fixing bugs, and they are not going anywhere. It's a very unfortunate end to what used to be a very nice piece of software.
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Technical Details
Binding: CD-ROMBrand: Corel
EAN: 0735163091915
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: 11CGSPCMENG0
Platform: Windows NT
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: 2002-08-16
Studio: Corel
